Archive for the ‘Armed Forces’ Category
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
"Let them win," was how Master Gunner Tom Parks put it last night at the Fort Snelling Officer's Club. These three simple words sum up the overall feeling of the standing-room only crowd that attended the Vets For Freedom Tour event. The reasons to win are numerous and critical; "Let ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Zanne Joi and Code Pinko have declared a siege on the Marine Recruitment Center in Berkeley, which may well cost the residents of Berkeley huge amounts of money in police overtime. As long as they (Berkeley residents) foot the bill and don't come panhandling to the rest of America for ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
The Berkeley War with the Marines continues with some new players on the pro-America side, Eagle's Up, which organized a rally to support the Marines and show the city of Berkeley what a financial burden their decision to ostracize the marines has been on local businesses. The participants in the ...
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Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
The Vets for Freedom Tour, which has been traveling across the country for a couple of weeks now, has had one of its stops cancelled. Not in Berkeley, the land of Moonbats, where one is accustomed to having everything under the sun politicized, but in Minnesota, the Land of the ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Code Pinko and Berkeley are continuing their war against the Marines with a week long protest in front of the Marine Recruitment Center in Berkeley commemorating the start of military operations to liberate Iraq.
From SFGate:
Toting house plants, pink pajamas, drums and organic veggies, protesters in Berkeley began settling in Monday ...
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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
Berkeley businesses are beginning to feel the pinch from all of the anti-military protests taking place in their city and the idiocy of their city council.
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Move America Forward, in a response to the many anti-Marine resolutions passed by the Berkeley City Council, has posted a new ad on their website that is slated to run nationwide and is available on you tube.
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This is the same ad that the Bay Area’s NBC 11 dubbed as ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
The Berkeley War with the Marines looks like it will continue for a long time. When it comes to material to write about, this makes Berkeley the gift that keeps on giving.
The Berkeley City Council voted to change the language of the resolution it passed last month in regards to ...
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
A buddy of mine sent me the link to this video and I thought I would share it.
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Tags:Sonic Boom Jets
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Berzerkeley is the city that keeps on giving. At least material to write about. The Marines in Berkeley Saga continues with more action as California Assemblyman Guy Houston of San Ramon moves to cut state funding to the City of Berkeley, even as the Mayor of Berkeley continues to use ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
I have been writing a bit about the Marines in Berkeley issue, and it seems to me that the City of Berkeley STILL DOESN'T GET IT!
From NBC11:
At their Tuesday council meeting, leaders will discuss scrapping a letter that might be perceived as targeting the center or the Marines.
That's all well ...
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
Berzerkely, land of the Moonbats, continues to be at the forefront of the news with its controversial decisions in branding the Marines as "unwelcome and uninvited" and providing Code Pinko with special privileges to protest the Marine Recruitment Center. Debra Saunders is taking the Berkeley City Council to task ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
SF Gate has a follow-up to the "Marines In Berkeley" story. At least one Berkeley Council has seen the light as far as the letter being sent to the Marine Corps Recruitment Center and is helping push the order to rescind that letter.
From the SFGate:
A week after blasting the Marines ...
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has come out on the side of the Marines in the Berkeley anti-military agenda. From FoxNews:
"This is a slap in the face to all brave service men and women and their families," DeMint said in a prepared statement. "The First Amendment gives the City of Berkeley ...
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Berkeley is living up to its hard-earned moniker. Berzerkeley. The City council has voted 6-3 branding the U.S. Marine Corps recruitment center as "uninvited and unwelcome intruders." It also voted 8-1 to grant the hard-left organization Code Pink a designated parking space in front of the USMC office and sound ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
I had forgotten about the two deserters seeking asylum in Canada until a report showed up in the news that Canada's Supreme Court has refused to hear their case. The two deserters, Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey, have been attempting to gain refugee status and asylum in Canada since they ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
I've written about the Westboro "Baptist church" before, but it has been sometime and the news sites haven't had a lot about them until now. a little background: The Westboro "Baptist church", and I use quotation marks to indicate that they are not, in my opinion a Christian church but ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
I ran across a good opinion piece in the SF Chronicle online edition about my former congressman, Pete Stark. I lived in his district before moving to Minnesota, so it is a good thing to know what he's been up to. In this opinion piece Debra Saunders describes ...
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
The Moonbats of Berkeley have displayed, in living PINK, exactly what they think of our military. I was in the California for the past, and on my drive to the airport to catch my early morning flight I was tuned in to KSFO and the Melanie Morgan show where ...
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
SF Gate is running an interesting opinion piece in which the writer, Robert Scheer, Moonbats about the current call for funding the rapid production of a new ground-effect vehicle: mine resistant ambush protected vehicles. These are the vehicles that the Defense Department had developed as a replacement for the ...
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